NITI Aayog holds National Workshop on SDG Budgeting in Kolkata, where a guide for mapping state budgets to the SDGs is discussed

2 October 2026

NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Government of West Bengal and with technical support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), organised a National Workshop on SDG Budgeting in Kolkata on 29 September 2026 under NITI Aayog's State Support Mission; the release was issued on 2 October 2026.
Participants came from 32 States and Union Territories.
The 'Guide on Mapping State Budgets to the SDGs', developed jointly by NITI Aayog, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and UNDP, was discussed at the workshop as a practical framework for aligning State budgets with the Goals.
West Bengal Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta and NITI Aayog Member R. Balasubramaniam attended, with CAG K. Sanjay Murthy and Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran joining virtually.
Haryana, Odisha, Meghalaya and West Bengal shared their SDG budget tagging experience.
West Bengal mapped its budget to the goal level of the SDGs for the first time and integrated the exercise into its Integrated Financial Management System.